Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-01
AROuT THE DERBY.

Medley of Views and OpiniOns-The Subject the Talk of the Town
 Eclfpses the State House Question Entirely.
 There was great variety of opinion ex- pressed about town by prominent citizens yesterday on the Derby railroad question viewed in the light of the new offer made by the Consolidated railroad. Some ex- pressed the view that the city could not do | better than to accept the new offer. Others | thought it would be we'll to wait and see if somebody or something would not bid high CT. Others thought it the best plan to sell
 to the New England through MT. Starbuck
 on the ground that it would be for the city's
 interest not to let the Consolidated have the l Derby because if the Consolidated got it | where would be the extension so much talked 1 about to bring the western Connecticut tradea Others thought it would be wisest not to sell at all and that the city keep the road They argued that if it was wanted so much by the two great roads it must be worth great deal, and if the city retained 1 control the city might eventually get better l bid or else make money out of the road it. self. Others still held that for the city to
 accept the offer of the Consolidated would mean death to the Starin line of boats and | 1 water and cause rise in the tariff of both
 steamboat and railroad freights to and from | New York. Others held that the city could l not accept that Starbuek offer (because it was a lower one than that named by the Consolidated road) unless it's action in so ! accepting combined the making of an
 appropriation of s1o0, 900 from the city treasury, that being the amount it would ! lose by not accepting the latter roads offer. | It would take fve-sixths vote to make an | appropriation, and it was doubtful if such a I vote could be obtained. Again it was urged that the Consolidated roads offer WIS an im-
 mediate and golden chance for the city to | get out of the railroad business at once and | turn it's now dead property i'll the Derby in- | to productive property, while at the same l time the individual stockholders of the Derby | would receive dividends on their stock, which l has for so long a time been dead property. 1 Then, too, the Consolidated. if it should l 'tget left" on it's offer, could easily do what | it proposed to dc few years ago. That was | just before the present amicable pooling ar- engagements between the Naugatuck and the ! Derby were affected. Before these were to build a branch from New Ha- ven to tap the Naugatuck two miles or so below Derby. This the Consoli- dated could easily do now should it fail to l get the Derby. and then where would the Derby be-
 
 question knocks the spots out of the old State House question. Before this question came up the old State House had a pudding of it, to speak in the vernaeular of the ordina- ry street mortal. Now the State House ques- tion falls back in the shade and everybody
 is talking Derby. Well, it is a good thing to l have change. Perhaps the Derby ques- ton will be settled when the boys of the pres ent day become old and deerepit, and then the State House question may come up again all blooming-may bob up serenely.'" THE FIGHT FOR THE DERBY.
 Yesterdays Hartford Courant, after speak ing of the Starbuck offer for New Haven's
 interest in the Derby, adds:
 Now the Consolidated offers either to buy out the
 city for $3C00C0 t0 lease the road. guarantee all
 interest and pay regular dvidendsto all stockhold-
 ers-the city and the rest New Haven will now
 face mighty int eresting question Apparently the
 two railroads will contend for the favor of the city
 government, and there will be lively fight. It has
 been prophesied that if the New England got the Derby there would be all along the line. We Shell see what we shall see,